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Old 02-06-2004, 04:35 AM  
Paul Markham
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Good points, I can see how it happened from our end. But there are so many big programs basically buying anything at a low price that forces down the prices even more. Therefore letting in the guy with less money to spend.

If the big programs had made their money, re-invested it in good content at a real price they would have built themselves to a size and quality that most new guys, unless they had a lot of money, could not of competed with.

If you have a site of 5,000 sets/videos and the average price for a good one is $100. Then that becomes the starting price to compete. Nowadays you can buy that stuff in a blowout sale for $5,000

The new producers made the prices low, but the big programs all rushed to buy and pushed prices lower, so the established providers had to trim.

It's too late now to close the dor, but if they had of realised 2 years ago that pushing prices down would allow anyone to compete with them, would they have done it?
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